So Origins is a great map in my opinion. Maybe my favourite out of all (maybe Der Riese and MotD comes first). Anyways, each public match I've played on Origins have ended up with either one person leaving and the others to follow, trollers, noobs, point stealers and people who refuses to open anything, etc.

But yesterday, I joined 3 random people, none of us had a mic. Nobody stole any Zombies from each other in the spawn room. I opened the first door, and the other players opened the followings. "Great!" I thought. And it got even better: We all worked together on the generators, we didn't spam the box until we got a good gun, instead we all took turns to roll the box. Everybody knew about the Nuke-Monkey bomb things, the Zombie Shield and Maxis drone, the Thunder Punch and everything. We worked together at the 4 chests to get the Thunder Fist, we worked together getting all staff parts, not only for the one we wanted for ourself, but we all gathered parts and the music discs for all staffs. We all helped each other out to the fullest when we got downed. We build all the staffs, and I had the Wind Staff. When I was going to get the Ultimate version, I couldn't remember where those 3 things I have to shoot were. So I knifed the big 4 wheels in the Staff Room, and one player started to knife me (he wanted me to follow him) hand he showed me all 3 of 'em! Afterwards, I was the only one who hadn't got my ultimate staff, and all 4 followed me to the Crazy Place and helped me charging up the staff!

Afterwards we started to train in our own areas, two of us got the Golden Shovel, we all had ultimate staffs, everyone was doing good, and it was so much fun!! Later, I one went down (we had all went down several times before though), but I think it was on purpose this time, since he got tired. That was all OK, I felt the same, so I just went down too, and the two others too.

Now THAT is what a fun public match is all about! THANKS to the guys I played with, I hope I get another public match on Origins again like that one

Public matches are great fun, I usually choose randoms over friends these days because without the chaos of noobishness BO2 as a whole is extremely boring... I'm glad you play public lobbies, my man, perhaps we'll run into one another at some point...

Good for you bud, but micless people that actually get a good game is very rare. I don't even waste my time with micless people, considering origins cost 15$ (if you didn't bought the pass), and my ps3 bluetooth cost me 20$... if you can't afford that, you don't deserve my time

You got a rare match. I get one good group every 10 times I play this map. Someone goes down twice and you can count on it that there backing out, and let's not talk about them bleeding out. It does matter how much they have on them you'll be playing a man down afterwards

That's not true in my experience. If you're talking about public lobbies in general, then I agree most games won't make the 20 mark due to people quitting, but that includes players with mics. And if you're talking about games that do get played out, I rarely have a public game that is over before 20. I've had plenty of games go past 30 in public lobbies with no communication and the whole team with few downs. Having a mic is an advantage, but it is not a precursor to having a good game. Public lobbies are definitely hit and miss, but you can stumble across some decent players, it makes those few good games even more rewarding, and the hectic ones between are fun.

few good games even more rewarding, and the hectic ones between are fun.

My post above stands, in my eyes it is a waste of time, and it is if you have to play a bunch of games just to get a good one in as you described. I would rather play a long game to 40,50 than a bunch of hectic ones betweento 20,30. This is just my opinion, we all have a different perspective on what we call a good game or high round.

Yeah but that's the problem. Treyarch needs to stop forcing teamwork. Origins just takes forever to set up in plus there's too many tedious things. Panzat is annoying as hell. I hate when people go down and then I'm left to clutch it with no staff or quick revive. Mud everywhere is annoying as well. Having to watch for a robot stepping on you is tedious as well.

what is your psn? Because I coincidently entered into a public match about a week ago with three randoms, nobody had mics, and we all made it to about 28, or 27. I was the last person lefT, and I died when I was stepped on by a robot. i also made sure to friend all the people I was with. would be just plain awesome if it was you.